I was thinking the same at some point. If they needed more money to develop some more features and stuff or needed more money for new hires... I'd be willing to pay more... So the perpetual license for Substance Painter which I use is 149$... That's a good price for what you get. I would probably have been able to pay more. Up to 200...230 maybe.. As long as I would know that this is mine, I can use it whenever I want for as long as I want... As was stated... I'm sure like someone said some people might even donate. Some would even jump through hoops of fire as long as it didn't go to Adobe... If you said: Help us out here, we need more money to take things to the next level, we have to increase prices a bit, we hope you understand, people would probably be fine with that. People want to support an independent company that creates a very good product for a decent price.
I agree with you. I'd also been able to pay more... even for monthly indie subscription
Yeah, me too! All they needed was be honest with us and tell us they needed more money to stay independent. It was already a pretty good deal, now I am not so sure what the future holds because we have no details at all.
The only way I see this being fair is if the Substance programs have a separate payment plan on the CC and people who have perpetual get to keep the program as it is or continue to get free updates for one or two years.
I agree. I always believed the indie price was lower than it could have been, but perhaps their enterprise solution more than made up for any shortcoming.
I would have been happy to pay more than the $240 I just paid for a year, but I won't give that money to Adobe.
It's my expectation Adobe will bundle Designer and Painter into a single plan. They're too integrated to be rented separately, but Adobe is more profit-minded than this so it's anyone's guess.